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Great Lakes, Great Skills

Welcome to Marine Trades Institute, the only accredited school specializing in the marine trades in the Great Lakes Region. Marine Trades Institute is a non-profit, post-secondary trade school that offers programs focused on giving students skills and experiences that will help them succeed in their career. These 12-month programs provide hands-on training in a shop-like setting and on the water! Now is the time! If you like working with your hands, enjoy being on the water, and want a career in the marine industry, Marine Trades Institute may be just the right fit for you!

Learn By Doing

At Marine Trades Institute, our students spend around 80% of their time in the shop. Fundamental to all programs at Marine Trades Institute is a strong focus on hands-on, applied learning which is reflected through the daily schedule during the semester. If you love boats, the outdoors, and working with your hands, then an education here may be the perfect fit for you.

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Grant Vale

Amazing Alumni

What I love most about my current job is that I get to be on the water every day and since I am on commission, I can be as busy as I want to be. In Austin the boating industry is huge, and the demand is very high for people like me. This allows me to work as much as I’d like. Seeing different calibers of boats from a 17ft fishing boat to 60 ft yachts to 115 ft houseboats gives me a wide variety of vessels to work on and learn from. This is why I chose this location.

Grant Vale | '21 | Hurst Harbor